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08/14/2009 01:00 AM
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe, or Action Force to us Brits, was a highly successful brand of Hasbro action toys featuring all kinds of combat expert...

02/06/2009 12:00 AM
The Secret of Moonacre Preview

The Secret of Moonacre is based on The Little White Horse, a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, that was one of my favourites as a child...

02/06/2009 12:00 AM
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Woody Allen has re-emerged from the ashes of his exploits in England with this delightfully light, but sparky romantic comedy set...

11/21/2008 12:00 AM
Body of Lies

Ridley Scott’s new thriller is lumbered with one of the worst titles of the year; not only is it nondescript and meaningless, it...

11/14/2008 12:00 AM
Max Payne

If you thought this summer’s crop of blockbusters were a bit lame, wait til you experience what Hollywood is dishing up for us...

11/07/2008 12:00 AM
W.

Oliver Stone, not known for his subtlety, delivers a biopic of one of the most ridiculed US Presidents: George W. Bush. Yet, far...

11/07/2008 12:00 AM
Easy Virtue

Adapting a Noel Coward play by throwing out the whole of the original script, except for the choicest of its witticisms, is not...

10/31/2008 12:00 AM
Quantum of Solace

Like its hero, Quantum of Solace is clinically impressive but emotionally disengaging, resulting in a competent but uninspiring...

10/24/2008 01:00 AM
Saw V

Once celebrated for delivering an unsettlingly original horror movie, Saw helped kick off the torture porn fetish Hollywood...

10/17/2008 01:00 AM
Burn After Reading

The Coen Brothers’ new movie is an almost perverse about-face in the wake of their Oscar-winning, weighty adaptation of No...

10/10/2008 01:00 AM
Nights In Rodanthe

Hollywood ignores people over thirty so thoroughly that a film like Nights In Rodanthe is a real event; aimed squarely at the...

10/10/2008 01:00 AM
The House Bunny

I had very low expectations of The House Bunny; frankly I expected it to be dreadful. The premise is this: Shelley Darlington...

10/03/2008 01:00 AM
Good Dick

It is a truth universally acknowledged that, with romantic comedies, the realism of the situations portrayed is in reverse ratio...

10/03/2008 01:00 AM
The Fall

Completed in 2006 but floundering in an unreleased netherworld ever since, music video director Tarsem Singh’s self-financed...

09/26/2008 01:00 AM
Appaloosa

Appaloosa, a breed of horse popular in the States, and oft-favoured in classic westerns... This movie also strives somewhat, not...

09/26/2008 01:00 AM
Taken

Few would expect to see refined actors such as Liam Neeson going on a ruthless killing rampage Jason Bourne-style, but that's...

09/26/2008 01:00 AM
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)

Philippe Claudel’s film opens with a shot of Kristin Scott Thomas’s Juliette, alone in an airport coffee shop. In cold stillness...

09/19/2008 01:00 AM
Tropic Thunder

It’s been seven years since Ben Stiller’s Zoolander set a new standard for really silly cinema, and between then and now alleged...

09/19/2008 01:00 AM
The Wave

This German blockbuster, which has made over $20million on home turf, begins with the dubious legend ‘based on a true story’. A...

09/19/2008 01:00 AM
Linha de Passe

Brazil: dusky beauties on Copacabana Beach, quaffing capirinhas? Or City of God style favelas, where toddlers gun each down with...